Alumni updates for April 2012
Hart featured in Arch Daily Alumnus Kevin Hart (BEDA 1973) and his firm Kevin Hart Architecture were featured in ArchDaily for the Menlo School MAC project and World Architecture News for transforming tilt-up concrete boxes to high-tech offices. Both projects can be found online at: http://www.archdaily.com/211338/menlo-school-mac-kevin-hart-architecture-2/ and http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11320 Wolf elevated to AIA College of Fellows [...]
Facebook, Twitter, DesignLife background and cover image collection
Calling all students, faculty and alumni! Do you want to showcase your work on the college’s social media /web presence through the background image for our Twitter feed, cover image for our Facebook page and background image for DesignLife? Send in submissions and you might be featured! Requirements: every month we will rotate out the [...]
Food systems and design brings students together at the Downtown Design Studio
The Downtown Design Studio hosted The Student Ideas Exchange in Food Systems and Design on March 29, 2012. The ideas exchange is the first in a series of exchanges to be hosted by the Downtown Design Studio to bring a diverse group together to hear presentations of student work and to foster a conversation with [...]
Tsai Lu Liu Named New Department Head of Graphic Design and Industrial Design at NCSU College of Design
Contact: Angela Brockelsby Tel: 919.513.7684 Email: angela_brockelsby@ncsu.edu FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Raleigh, NC — March 26, 2012 — North Carolina State University’s College of Design announced today that Tsai Lu Liu, IDSA, associate professor of industrial design at Auburn University’s Department of Industrial and Graphic Design, has been named Department Head of Graphic Design and Industrial [...]
Flores reflects on using design methods to give back
By SAUL FLORES, Caldwell Scholar and Graphic Design Student GOOD Design for good is a combination of trust, thought, and action, shaped by the experiences of a designer and then given meaning in the context of its solution. When fueled by pure motivations, and then leveled by a methodological approach to sustainability, and finally executed [...]
Isley on developing a capital campaign and a textbook design solution
Alumnus Alexander Isley sent us an update on some recent projects that his design firm Alexander Isley Inc. has been involved in, including work on a capital campaign for Durham Academy and a recently completed design for a textbook. What We’re Excited About Today We work with a variety of educational institutions, but this one’s [...]
Alumni, students, and faculty in the news
Alumni, Students, and Faculty in the News Philip Freelon, architect of record of the Smithsonian’s African American Museum The Washinton Post AIA NC’s new Center for Architecture and Design The News & Observer An embassy for architecture The News & Observer NCSU team wins Disney attraction design contest The News & Observer Raleigh Denim draws a crowd in [...]
Student and Alumni Notable Mentions for February 2012
Graphic Design Student Wins Design Award Bachelor of Graphic Design student Kirsten Southwell won first place in the Design Ignites Change award for her GD400 (Design for Relief and Aid) class project on Design Thinking in Rural North Carolina. Southwell credits her professor Megan Hall and teaching assistant Rachael Huston to her success saying, “[Megan] [...]
Iconathon 2012 on February 25
The Noun Project is proud to introduce the first Iconathon of 2012! Sponsored by Cree, Inc., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of energy-efficient LEDs and LED lights, this Iconathon will focus on creating new public domain symbols for Energy Efficiency and the LED light bulb. This is your opportunity to help create graphic symbols and [...]
Matthew Monk Appointed Academic Dean at Vermont College of Fine Arts
By MORGAN NEDERHOOD, College of Design RALEIGH, NC – On July 1, 2012, Alumnus Matthew Monk (BEDV 1985) begins his appointment as the academic dean at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier, Vermont. Monk, currently a professor of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), earned his Bachelor of [...]
